Carnival Personnel

Sideshow 112 -Hafen Is A Spy. Maybe. Maybe Not. But Yes. He’s Totally A Spy. Part 2 (of 2)

HOW did we talk Hafen doing weather mapping in Africa and NONE of us made a Toto reference?  WOW!

 

So part 2 of our talk with long time pal Hafen (allegedly) zooming in from Sweden where (allegedly) he has become a citizen.

 

We get more into the weeds where I put the case out there that this guy … who has ALL the intangibles a government toppling clandestine black ops off the books organization would recruit – SO well rounded with degree in mechanical engineering / applied physics from top university … near 40 years of programing (hacking) and (alleged) Masters in climate science, speaks several languages, charming, good looking, no drug/alcohol issues, no ex-wife or kids, very little immediate family … works in field where totally plausible to drop off grid globally and be out of reach without raising any red flags for weeks … months …

 

In 6 months … if Joe, Biff and Jacques haven’t meet their collective demise in some weird bizarre strangely coincidental manor … and Haf hasn’t fallen off the flat earth on a mission … we will circle back and Biff and Joe solo will chat with Haf and see what questions and conclusions they come back with.

 

Here is ALL Hafen’s social media links: There Are None.

CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast                                                                                           

Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey

Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber

Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)

 

Opening Song: Theme To James Bond by Moby (totally used without permission.)

 

Closing Song: Recess by Dan Cray and Beyond Id (like 1991 I think)

CP Sideshow #111- Hafen Is A Spy. Maybe. Maybe Not. But Yes. He’s Totally A Spy. Part 1 (off 2)

Biff and Jacques have been pals with Hafen for over 25 years.  1998 to 2004 Jacques doesn’t think he hung out with any one person more.   Joe first met Hafen when they were in Jacques’ Starter Wedding together in 1999 (bit of talk about that infamous wedding event on this episode.)   THIS is our first 2-part episode.  Part 2 will drop next week.   It was decided that we will have Hafen back in a few months to let Biff and Joe formulate more questions and ponder am I (attempting) to be funny or is it possible Hafen is Jason Bourne.  As Jacques said … He loves Hafen.  He’s closer to Hafen then his own brother.  He has no idea who Hafen is.   Jacques case is this:  Since 2004 Hafen left LA to allegedly go back to grad school in Washington in his early 30s for a masters in weather mapping that would take him to far reaching points on globe.  Hafen has little immediate family.  Is good looking and charming.  Super strong and a good athlete.  Degree from top engineering college in Applied Physics and mechanical engineering.  Self-taught computer expert (started in the 80’s) and is at highest level programing and hacking, Speaks a few languages. Has called several countries on 3 continents “Home” in last decade.  His career (and starting with grad school in 04) has him in remote areas and places where power going out for days is the norm … or he’s on insane deadline plus 9-hour time zones different so we can’t talk for days/weeks … in other words plausible deniability of being off the grid while doing M.I.5 stuff in Africa.   Here is ALL his social media links: There Are None. CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast                                                                                             Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)   Opening Song: Theme To Bourne Identity by Moby (totally used without permission.)   Closing Song: Tucker by Dan Cray and Beyond Id (off 2023 release: The Trump Era.  On DanCray.net and Spotify)

CP EP #232: Listen To Strike Force 5 and Open Mic Pain

No Biff … mostly because Jacques is too dumb to know how the days of the week work.   Jacques had a few “Booked” shows cancel (studio audience sighs) BUT some time the comedy gods (small G) take away and sometimes they give as just as quickly a couple very cool comedy ops fell his way.   Joe, Jacques and his managers wife’s life are so much better with the podcast Strike Force 5 (and Open Mic Pain) bringing so much joy into their lives. Give em a listen.   Joe game system tinkering continues, Jacques doing a 24-Hour-Film-Festival and Aaron Rodgers Achilles heel is busted buy his big mouth is working overtime.   Jacques goes from having ZERO sports kids to having 2 sports kids and is draining and awesome.   So much TV and so little time: Only Murders, Loki, Asoka, Beckham, Pornhub … CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast                                                                                             Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond ID Closing Song: Standard Practices by Beyond Id (Live At The Ratt In Boston circa 1996)

Special RE- POSTING: Sideshow # 67 Paul Devers From Carvers And Creators

With Halloween season upon up we decided to do a special re-posting of Sideshow # 67 from 4/19/21 - Paul Devers: Champion – World Renowned Pumpkin (Food) Carver.  Since winning Food Channel’s “Outrageous Pumpkins” years ago, Paul has been a Food Network judge and personality.  Paul is the creator of the wildly successful YouTube series: Carvers And Creators.  Carvers and Creators few years back grew to the point where Oscar and Emmy winners (set designers, Prop experts, Special Effects … ect) ask them to come on the show.  The yearly carving contest draws entries from every point on the globe.

We say this a lot … but THIS really is a great episode!  The laughs per minute ratio hits an all time Carnival Personnel Podcast high and it’s ALL due to the guest - world champion pumpkin carver, artist, drummer, YouTube personality and hysterical dude, Paul Dever.  If Paul wasn’t too busy with his YouTube show (Carvers and Creators) we’d have him be the full-time host of CP!

Paul talks his path to watching Food Network saying to himself (and his wife) I can do that … to a couple years later WINNING Food Channels 2019s Carving Championship… toughest part (spoiler alert) he won it in 2018 but it didn’t air for a year so had to keep quiet about it the whole time!

 

How this world works, what’s ahead for Paul in this space and how he’s made life-long friends with artist heroes along the way … seriously, this really is a fun episode.  And if you don’t like it at the end … it comes with a money back guarantee.

 

Check Paul Devers out at:

 

https://www.youtube.com/c/CarversCreators

 

https://www.devercustoms.com/

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyw2zHTb35Y

 

https://www.facebook.com/DeverCustoms/

 

DeverCustoms on Instagram

 

CP: Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/

 

CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast                                                                                            

Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey

Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber

Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)

 

Opening Clips: It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Closing Song: Dan Cray and Beyond Id “Laid”

 

CP EP 231 - CP Takes A Comedy Field Trip

Joe & Jacques (and our friend Julie) headed over to the mecca of comedy rooms inside Chine’s restaurants in the Merrimac Valley (China Blossom N. Andover MA) to see last weeks guest Lauren Sims host an amazing line up.  Biff SADLY wasn’t part of the field trip or this recording.

 

We chat Jacques breaking thru the glass ceiling of Lowell comedy and doing the cable access show The Golden Toilet … and going to a reverse ambush mic to see friend James Hamilton do what he thought was a “real” booked show.

 

Joe chats seeing the famed Blue Man Group for first time (thanks to his oldest kid pulling some strings!)  And updates us on … OUR happy places.  The NEW-Seum 2.0

 

Jacques goes from having zero sports kids to having two sports kids and his oldest son learning fast how everything Jacques worried about with organized sports (the politics, the pettiness …) SUCKS.  BUT … at least POS Aaron Rodgers seasons sucks more.

 

Anyone see lost stealth fighter pentagon lost … anyone NOT see Family Values 36 yr old grandma Q’anon Hand-job McGee at Beetlejuice play?  Parenting times … ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?!

 

CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast                                                                                           

Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey

Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber

Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)

 

Opening Song: Welcome Back Kotter Parody (By Joe and Chipboy)

Closing Song: New One by Dan Cray and Beyond Id (DanCray.Net)

CP Sideshow #110 - Comedian Lauren Sims Wants PJs with Pockets!!!

Lauren Sims is a comedian Joe and Jacques caught last month at Greg Boggis’ “Mondo Comedy” at The Luna Theater In Lowell.  A Gen-X comic whose material really landed and hit home with us!

 

Joe’s under the weather and Biff has grown up stuff so the for mentioned lovely and talented (and former guest) Mr. Greg Boggis stepped in to co-host this episode with Jacques.

 

Lauren on somewhat of a whim and maybe dealing with a mid-life awakening in 2019 decided to check out Boston comic legend Tony V’s classes … and just as she nailed her graduation showcase … in the first week of March 2020…. Well … you know … Covid.

 

Now this mom of two teen girls juggles all that insanity as she builds her comedy (and hosting) career in the very competitive (yet surprisingly supportive) New England comedy circuit.  Lauren’s goals are focused well beyond the north east corridor!

 

Greg had some great insights and tips as a veteran comic, comedy show producer and host.

 

This was a super fun chat.  Jacques plans to rope Joe (if he survives this bug) to see Lauren host at Wicket Funny Comedy at The China Blossom in North Andover THIS Saturday, Sept. 23^rd with headliner Tony V and of course we will be at Luna Theater in Lowell for Greg’s monthly Mondo Comedy on Thursday Sept. 28!

 

Laurensims_71 on Instagram and Lauren Sims on Facebook

 

Greg is BoggisNews on Instagram and check out Boggiscomedy.com for his shows!

 

CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast                                                                                           

Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey

Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber

Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)

 

Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id

Closing Song: Tucker by Dan Cray and Beyond Id (DanCray.Net)

 

Thanks to Lauren Sims for the use of her comedy clips on this episode AND check out Dan’s latest EP, “The Trump Era” on Spotify

CP EP. 230 -The Elephant In The Room

Big Day at CPP as this was the FIRST of what we (Jacques) really hopes is many recordings to come at Joe’s Los-eum 2.0 … and … AND the return of The Random Video Game Review Of The Week!

 

Before we lose Biff 20 minutes in to tech issues, Biff was able to join in with Jacques lumping due praise to our friend JT who AGAIN was named a top 100 lawyer (as was 9 folks from HIS Law Firm)

 

Joe chats Jacques on one of our favorite podcast @Openmicpain and having meet one of the shows host Wayne as the 3 of our caught @Boggisnews #MondoComdey and saw friend of CPP @SteveBjork work out some awesome new bits.

 

Chat the passing of one of ALL our childhood heroes, Bob “Clean Living” Barker.  Can’t said sad passing if dude makes it till 99.  We all love Bob we all loved Betty White … Betty White and Bob Barker didn’t love each other…

CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast                                                                                           

Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey

Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber

Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)

 

Opening: Joe singing couple verses of The Sugar Hill Gang “Rappers Delight”

 

Closing Song: Delicate Weight by Dan Cray (DanCray.Net)

CP Sideshow # 109: Dalya Black – Comedian, Cannibalistic Mermaid Grind Core Fan

Dalya Black is a super smart and funny LA based comedian (writer, director, producer).  Dalya who has “only” done stand up in Los Angeles AND London hails from the cold hard streets of Medford MA.  Not wanting to be a medium fish in a small pond (the Boston film making scene) they pack a bindle and headed for LA LA Land.   Dalya and Jacques were both on bill at really fun showcase in July (Tao Comedy Club) in LA.  Dalya’s focus right now is all stand up all the time but do enjoy the trip down their linktree (see below) rabbit hole.  They’ll you’ll see a bunch of really fun shorts on their YouTube channel (as well as a really great video showing comics how to log and breakdown their shows), a full-length movie (producer credit) on Tubi, “Sympathy Card”, link to IG page where again you’ll see some really fun video shorts and a bunch of other great stuff.   Hope you like the fox sweat shirt you see in different clips cause it’s here to stay, baby!   Joe and Jacques had blast recording this podcast and chatting a bunch before and after.  Follow for dates on their socials and GO see a show in person.  You will thank us! And thank you for Dalya for use of their comedy clips on this episode!   Dalya Black’s Socials: linktr.ee/dalyablackcomedy IG: @dalyablackcomedy   CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast                                                                                            Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)   Opening Song: WXRP In Cincinnati Parody by @Model_CHP3Y (Twitter and Youtube)   Closing Song: Six Fourteen by Beyond Id (circa 1991)

CP EP. 229 - Do You Know Who I AM? My Mail Carrier Does!

The entire CPP family (Biff and Jacques) are wishing a happy birthday to our brother Joe!   In a slow news week where nothing happened (other than Donny 5-Scoops being indicted for 4th time – 1st mug shot) Joe and Jacques chat Jacques being publicly recognized from recent FRONT PAGE of the Lowell Sun (while standing in his drive way) by a mail carrier dropping off  …BEST part is Jacques 13 year old was right there and now considers this the WORST moment of his life!   Stay with me here … turns out Jacques Management (wife) her boss’ bestie from college (MIT) just piloted a rocket to the International Space Station where she’ll be for next 6 months … we’re hoping she’ll do our little show FROM SPACE … or when she gets back!   Chat our kids school starting … parenting tips of the week and much much more.  Well … More.   CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast                                                                                             Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond ID Closing Song: Bookends by Beyond Id

CP Sideshow #108: LA Comedian Lauren Caputo Is Funny

Lauren Caputo is a Los Angeles based comic by way of San Francisco by way of New Jersey.   Jacques met Lauren in LA a few weeks ago when they were both featured at an amazing show at Tao Comedy.   Lots of Lauren’s hysterical bits are pulled from growing up very Jersey Italian in a very Jersey Italian town … while also being very Canadian. Lauren also pulls great material from the world having certain stereotypical “expectations” and she is not gonna play those reindeer games.  Lauren has an amazing supportive wife who NEVER says “I told you so” … UNTIL they get in the car after the show and the joke she told you doesn’t work … doesn’t work!   If you’re in the LA area … do yourself a favor and go see her shows.  She’s on stage at some of the best venues in Los Angles EVER week!   LaurenCaputoIsFunny on IG (and other social media)   CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast                                                                                            Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)   Opening Song: Welcome Back Kotter Parody (By Joe and Chipboy)   Closing Song: Other Break by Dan Cray and Beyond Id   Special Thank You again to Lauren for sending up the clips we used of her to bookend this episode.